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The Voice of the Students

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH - 451 E 400 N - PRICE, UT 84501

VOICE OF THE STUDENTS November 3, 2011Volume XXXVI•Number 3

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VIEWPOINTS- The Art of Awesomeness- Calendar of events- Getting digits- The Right perspective•page 3

LIFESTYLES -Chairapy -Mentalist -Drinking fountains -Romeo and Juliet •pages 6-8

SPORTS- VB defeats 5th in nation- Baseball wraps up season- Basketball season begins - Next on the tee •pages 4-5

What’s Inside . . .

Seth Richardsstaff writer

s.richards@eaglemail.ceu.edu

The music building, student center and police station are all lacking a certain air of ambiance on the 300 North. The parking strip along that street also seems more naked than last year. There is only one obvious answer to this change. It must be the product of foul play.

The truth of the matter is much less sinister. The trees were being a nuisance to the Price City Power Service. Having been trimmed back twice, the trees were ordered trimmed or taken down.

Being so close to the power

lines, a person standing next to the trees would have been taking a considerable risk, according to Ken Harney, employee at the util-ity office who issued the order for removal.

Sheila Burghardt, director of facilities maintenance was able to get the cutting stayed until the school could purchase the smaller and slower growing topiaries that grace the parking strip now, next to the stumps of the attractive but dangerous trees that once cooled the music and purchasing and receiving buildings.

The administration was ini-tially against the removal, but,

After several years of enroll-ment growth Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah saw a drop in student numbers this fall. USU Eastern’s 11.8 percent enrollment decline is in contrast to the trend of Utah’s public colleges and uni-versities that increased over 1,000 full-time equivalent students, or 1.17 percent.

Dixie State College saw the largest percentage increase at 4.52 percent (273 students) followed by Utah Valley University at 3.65 per-cent (695 students) and Utah State University at 2.48 percent (474 stu-dents), Snow College went up 2.62 percent (83 students), University of

Utah 2.23 percent (573 students) and Weber State University .88 percent (121 students).

Colleges decreasing in enroll-ment included Salt Lake Commu-nity College dropping 4.29 percent (711 students) and Southern Utah University dropping 3.74 percent (233 students).

“After big gains in 2010, this year’s enrollment backslide was sobering. Eastern has been working with an enrollment management consulting firm since before the start of fall semester, and new marketing, recruitment, and reten-tion initiatives are in the works on many fronts,” said Academic Vice

Chancellor Greg Benson.According to an enrollment

document provided by USU AAA office in Logan, the headcount at USU Eastern’s freshman class dropped 50 percent from 1,869 in 2010 to 944 in 2011. The sopho-more class dropped 45.5 percent from 765 in 2010 to 348 in 2011. What helped the college’s overall enrollment numbers were the 153 students enrolled on in junior-level classes and 64 students in senior-level classes on the Price campus that were not available in 2010. The document classified 814 students as unclassified in the enrollment numbers.

Jan Young, director of admis-sions and records, said the 814 unclassified students are “the non-matriculated students – people not going for a degree and concurrent enrollment students.”

Students who entered USU Eastern as a first-time college student dropped 44 percent from 2010 to 2011 from 686 to 453 (233 students).

The bright spots in enroll-ment were the number of transfer students enrolling which went up 120.5 percent (16 students) and those students continuing from the previous year went up from 1,005 to 1,142 (113.6 percent).

One hundred and fifty fewer women are attending USU East-ern in 2011; 90 fewer males are attending.

In race and ethnicity, American Indian dropped 58 students (11.7 percent), Asian dropped 39 (54.9 percent), Hispanic dropped 3 (12 percent), Pacific Island added one (114.3 percent), two or more races added 13 students, with the total minority enrollment dropping 13.7 percent.

USU Eastern’s full-time equiv-alent enrollment numbers include the Price campus and San Juan campus. In budget-related num-bers, the Price campus lost 187.9

(15 percent) students from 2010-11 and San Juan lost 38.7 (8.8 percent).

The Price campus lost 175.6 Utah residents (14.8 percent) and 35.3 non-residents (25.4 percent). The San Juan campus lost 44.4 Utah residents (10.5 percent) and gained 5.8 (125.8 percent) non-residents.

The regional USU campuses all experienced enrollment growth except the Tooele/Wasatch cam-pus which dropped 1.6 percent. Brigham City jumped 111.4 per-cent, Southeastern Utah (Grand County) 134.5 percent, Uinta Basin 113.1 percent.

“For the past few years, we

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photo by Jessa Adams/The Eagle

Cosmetology’s Fantasy HairIn the annual competition, first place was won by Mandy Jesson, Price; second Kielie Ivie, Huntington; third Elsie Debry, Ferron.

Enrollment drops 310 students

Tadd Mechamstaff writer

t.mecham@eaglemail.ceu.edu

For those attending USU-Eastern for a second or third se-mester, there is something differ-ent about campus. Those students who have been here for a while

may no-tice such c h a n g -e s . O f c o u r s e there are the ban-ners on the lamp p o s t s

telling us to “experience the change.” There are also the new water fountains which have a stand to fill up water bottles, informing the user of how many plastic water bottles have been saved from going to the trash.

One of the most obvious changes that has come with the merger is the new signage on all of the buildings throughout campus. In front of each building, now stands a sign with the building’s name printed on it.

The campus has been in need of signs for the buildings for a long time, and it was Utah State University in Logan that had them

Trees removed along 300 North New signs on campus

Karli Morrisstaff writer

k.morris@eaglemail.ceu.edu

Recently USU Eastern was given a 25-acre gift of land. The donor wishes to remain anonymous but donated the land to be used as an Energy and Education Research facility. Price City has also donated $500,000 towards a road. Accord-ing to the Salt Lake Tribune, this addition to USU Eastern will cause the campus to triple in size.

“There are no immediate plans for the building. A lot of partners and significant dona-

tions will be needed to move it to the next level, but does open a lot of possibilities for us in the future,” says Brad King, vice chancellor for administration and advancement.”

The Energy and Educa-tion Research Building will be similar to the Bingham Entrepreneurship and Energy Research Center located at the USU Uinta Basin extension in Vernal. Eventually research projects (that will be private and public partnerships) will begin, studying coal and energy.

Campus to triple in size; thanks to land from donor

The Eastern Utah Wind Sym-phony, a college-community concert band at Utah State Univer-sity-College of Eastern Utah, will present a fall concert on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Price Civic Auditorium. Special guest conductor and clarinet soloist will be William S. Carson, director of bands and professor of music at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The concert opens with Carson conducting The Iowa Band Law. This march by Karl King celebrates a 1921 Iowa law that authorized communities to levy a property tax for the support of a local band. Next on the program is Song for Lyndsay, a dramatic work by Iowa native An-drew Boysen, director of bands at the University of New Hampshire. The centerpiece of the concert will be a performance of Car-son’s recently-published edition of Percy Grainger’s Spoon River. This fall Carson has participated

in rehearsals and performances of Spoon River in New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, and Utah, and the work will be featured at the prestigious Midwest Clinic, an international band and orchestra conference, in Chicago in December. Carson’s new Spoon River edition has also been recorded by the President’s United States Marine Band.

The Wind Symphony’s regu-lar conductor, Gregory Benson, will lead the group in Michael Daugherty’s Alligator Alley, a contemporary work inspired by a stretch of Interstate 75 that crosses through the Florida Everglades National Park. Daugherty is a University of Michigan professor and an Iowa native. Carson will return to the stage to perform as clarinet soloist in Benny Goodman: The King of Swing. This medley by United States Army Band arranger Paul Murtha includes four Good-man standards: “Let’s Dance,”

“Stompin’ At The Savoy,” “Moon-glow,” and “Sing, Sing, Sing.” The concert finale, American Heroes, will be a salute to the United States Armed Forces, including “The Caisson Song,” “The Marines’ Hymn,” “Anchors Aweigh,” “The

U.S. Air Force,” and “America the Beautiful.”

In addition to his faculty posi-tion at Coe College, Carson is as-sociate music director and admin-istrator of the Iowa Ambassadors, a high school group that performs in Europe in alternate summers. He earned degrees at Macalester Col-lege, Southern Illinois University, and Arizona State University, and has taught in Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Iowa. Carson’s travels as a conductor, cli-nician, performer, and researcher have taken him to 34 states and 23 countries. His book, On the Path to Excellence: The Northshore Concert Band, is available from Hal Leonard and at Amazon.com.

Benson has been at USU Eastern since 1999. He earned degrees from Central Michigan University, Bowling Green State University, and Michigan State

Wind Symphony presents concert Nov. 5

see Signs page 3photo by Sammie Fugat/The Eagle

photo by Sammie Fugat/The Eagle

see Enrollment page 3

On Halloween night, ghosts, goblins, vampires, and all sorts of creatures ventured out into the cold for three hours to collect much needed food for the Carbon County Food Bank and inadver-tently, set a record for the most food collected since the project began several years ago.

Volunteers gathered at the LDS Institute Building and the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center on the USU Eastern campus and were assigned a route to go trick or treating for food in the Carbon County area. Over 100 volun-teers, decked out in their favorite Halloween costumes, collected

over 4,600 pounds of food.The Carbon County Food

Bank employees were grateful for the help, especially at this time of year when there are many needy families in the Carbon County area. The employees agree that every little bit helps. “With more than 246,000 people living in poverty in Utah, the impact of projects like this is far reach-ing and powerful,” said USU Eastern’s SUN Center President Austin Ashcraft.

“We collected over 4,600 pounds of food. That is more food than we collected in each of the

see Sun Center page 3

Trick or Treat for food; SUN Center pulls in a record amount of food

see Symphony page 3

see Trees page 3

Administration and honored guests break ground on the new land given to USU Eastern on Founder’s Day,(L-R) Barbara Piccolo, Mayor Joe Piccolo, Paul Washburn, Chancellor Joe Peterson, Vice-Chancellor Greg Benson and Vice-Chancellor Brad King.

Dr. William S. Carson